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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07
CLIMATIC CHANGES IN THE
WEST.

Twenty wears ago central Kansas and
Nebraska were accounted too dry for re-
liable farming The innumerable buffalo
and antelope kept the short grass down,
and trampled the surface Of the soil so
hard that it shed rain like roof. Owing
to the rapid loss of rainfall by this
means, the cooling and moistening effect
of gradual evaporation was lost and the
ground became hotter, till the southwest
siroccos would wither all tender vegeta-
ton; cactus and buffalo grass being about
the only survivors. The early settlers
had many losses OF crops. But now the
condition of things is changed.
What has caused it? No one reason
can be assigned but perhaps the most i'm
portant cause is the blowing and by con-
slant cultivation, the fine pulveration of
the soil. Formerly the rain that did fall
was so quickly run out of the region that
it seemed to do little good. When the
atmosphere had reached a highly heated
condition, clouds, f-they came, were at
once rarified and rendered invisible.
The summer clouds tor months were few,
and brought no rain. When thousands
and millions of acres were plowed the
thirsty ground drank in the rain to such
a depth, that for weeks the gradual evap
Grafton changed the air from dry to
moist, and in consequence the formerly
devices plains became bright and spark
ling with the diamonds of the morning.
The cooling effects of this was also re-
freshing to Vegetation; and now, in that
formerly arid region, the crops are as re-
liable as in the older and more eastern of
the western states The command is:
Go up and subdue the earth. In our
day we see how this can be done-the
vast plains, once desert, becoming the
most inviting part of our country.
Another result is the increased moist
ure of the air causes more extended
distribution of rain during the growing
summer months. The actual amount of
rainfall has not been so greatly increased,
but it comes more in gentle showers that
refresh the earth, instead of deluging
dashes, as years ago. This change also
causes the growth of grain, and the tall
grasses, which shade and mulch the
ground: and this has g favorable effect.
Now trees can be grown successfully.
and they arrest the force of the winds,
and also shade the ground and retard
evaporation.-ProfJ j. A. Bent in Prai
RE Farmer.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

1t can be given in cup of coffee or tea without
the knowledge of the person taking it, is absolute
iy harmless and will effect permanent and speedy
cure, whether the patient is a moderate drinker
or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of drunkards
have been made temperate men who have taken
the Golden Specific in their coffee without their
knowledge, and to-day believe they quit drinking
of their free will. 1T NEVER FAILS.
The system once impregnated withe Specific it be-
comes an utter impossibility for the liquor appe-
tite to exist. For full particulars, address
oct % GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co.,
1876 Race ST. Cincinatti, Ohio
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

city council of Dodge City may see fit to make
from time to time.
SEC. 5. That said The Wichita Construction
and Supply Company shall none other than
rst-class material in the construction of their rail-
way, and frst-class cars and equipment for the
operation of the same. The gauge of said track
shall be three and half feet from fange to
hange of the rails and the rails shall be the kind
commonly known as the Trail.
SEC. q. The Mayor and City COunclmen Of
Dodge City reserve the right to regulate the fares
for conveying passengers on said railway provided,
however, that no passenger shall be carried for
less than cents except between the hours of
O'Clock P. NJ, and 5 A. NJ, when the company may
charge double fare.
and Supply Company, be, and they hereby
quired to begin the work of building their tracks
on or before the 1st day of September, 1881, and
have two miles of the same constructed and in
good running order with not less than two cars
running thereon within six months from said date.
The first mile of said railway is to be built upon
Second Avenue. so as to extend from 4th street in
Crawford's addition, thence north. The second
mile to be built west from Second Avenue
Front Street, and east from said avenue on Walnut
Street and Military Avenue. And in case the
Mayor and City Councilmen shall give the said
company 30 days notice to extend their railway
upon any of the designated streets, unless the
is extended within reasonable time thereafter,
they shall have the right to grant franchise to any
other corporation that may apply for it, on said
street, to build the same.
SEC. s. This ordinance shall take effect and be
in force on and after its publication once in the
Dodge City TINES.
Passed the council July 1, 1887.
Approved July 1, 1887. X. W. TARBOX,
Attest GEO. +. JONES, Mayor
City Clerk.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07
mated.

The Kansas farmer has great reason to
rejoice over his corn fields, and even his
very moderate crop of hay, for Illinois is
suffering from drouth of great length.
Through large section of the state the
pastures look as if scorched by fire; grain
is light, meadows very short and corn,
while widely planted, is scarcely two feet
high, much of it half that heighth.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land Office at Garden City, Kas., June 80, 1887
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice of his intention to make final
proof in support Of his claim. and that said proof
will be made before II. j. Vanderslice, Probate
Judge Of Ford County, Kansas, at Dodge City,
Kansas, on Sept. LIST, 1887, viz:
John NJ. RObinett, Dodge City, Kansas, for the
NV or sec g. town %, range "a W.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said
land, viz:
james Hughes, Y. ID. Connell, William Pogue.
and j. NJ. Haney, all of Dodge City, Kans.
july-1-St &. L. NJ. NILES Register.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

1t took the New York jury only
thirteen minutes to decide that Boodler
Sharpe was guilty. The defendant did
not drop dead when the verdict was
given in, as had been prophesied by his
attorneys; but the verdict was accom-
panied with a recommendation for the
mercy of the court which shows that
Jake's representations Of precarious
health were not without effect.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

Fort Scott. through thrown a little
in the shade by Paola's monster cele-
bration, is not disposed to be left in the
matter of natural gas. Another well
has just been opened there which is des-
cribed as the largest and strongest yet
discovered.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

The Chicago News attributes to a
London journal the authorship of the
following instructive paragraph:
The Indians now performing in the
American wild west exhibition are
principally from the territory of st.
Louis, wild district lying between
Kansas City and Missouri, and not far
from Milwaukee. The Indians are
caught in traps set on the river banks.
They are baited, an American tells us
with peculiar fluid called 'Jefsey light
ming The Indians are fond Of it.
They smell it afar off are tempted into
the trap and caught. Our informant
says that many Of the Indians thus
caught are used for cigar signs in
Chicago.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

Major William Sims says the new cen
sus of the state as taken by the assessors
will show an increase in population Of
from 12 to Is per cent, as against 10 per
cent last year. This indicates total
incubation of $50. 600.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

One Of the pcculiarities of Kansas
is the whittier. He is to be found in
every live town in the state and par.
ticlarly in the southwest. Go into any
real estate, law, newspapers or loan
Office in the evening and you see an
interminable amount of shaving scat
tered over the floor. 1t is simply a
Kansas habit and, nothing more. tits
an aid to his thinking apparatus, and by
its aid many knotty problem has
been solved, many a deep scheme has
been layed and many a matter brought
to terminus. When time comes for
a conflict of intcllects if a piece of pine
can not be found, the Kansan is lost.
He flaps around like headless chick
en-. It is a well known fact that
fluent speakers have made an ignom-
imous failure when deprived of watch
charm, vest or coat button or some
other simple thing which they are &C
customed to absently fondle during
their talk, but the whittier is new
one. Will some student of humanity
pleace arise and explain.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

The English sparrows do great
amount of work. When the tower of a
church in Illinois had been cleaned out it
was found that enough hay had been
carried in by those little workers to fill a
wagon box
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

81 tell you wise man will court
the whole family. [ want to court my
mother: in law to see what sort of a
woman raised my wife. want to court
the sisters around awhile to see what
sort of sister she grew up amongst.
1t depend upon the mother that raised
your wife and the sisters she associat-
ed with as she grew up to womanhood
and grew up to where she could be
come wife of some man that offered
hand and heart to her, that will deter
mine what kind of wife she will make.
"-GSam Jones.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07
EXTRACT OF MALT GETS A
BLACK EYE.

Extract of malt received it's first
black eye in Marion, Kansas, July 1. N.
A. Floising was lined 800 and cost and
sentenced to thirty days Imprisonment
for selling it.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

Now the peach crop of Delaware is dis
troyed once more. 1t is eaten up by the
worms this time Next time it is destroy
ed it will be eaten up by the people OF
the United States.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

At Paola natural gas celebration on
Tuesday one we'll was turned on ignited
which threw flame scventy-fve feet
high. The celebration was a grand
success, $4,000 people being present,
and the town was most brilliantly illum-
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

Illinois farmers are having much
trouble with insects, Hessian fly, chinch
bugs, cut worms, and corn root worms.
A great deal of damage to crops is ro-
ported.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

1t is best to teach little chicks to eat
cracked corn and wheat when about three
or four week old. If fed continually on
soft food they will take no other, and
will even do without rather then eat
grain. The only trouble with soft food
is'that it digests SO rapidly that if given
all their crop will hold, in two or three
hours it is empty then they are hungry
all night long. A good feed of cracked
corn and wheat at night will keep them
cOntented
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

There is one admirable feature about
a wire fence. The patent medicine man
can't paint legend on it in regard to his
liver cure.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

Last year car coupling killed 459
brakemen, crippled for life 4,OSS, and
painfully in jured 1870. Total killed
and wounded, Is, 300.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

C. F. NJ Niles, register to the land Of
fee, is being favorably mentioned as a
candidate of the Democracy for congress
from this district. OF course he can't be
elected, but that don't prevent him from
running.-Meade Center Republican.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

A company has been organized at Pa
ola with capital stock of 81 900, 900 for
the purpose of piping natural gas from
that town to Kansas City. 1t lis expected
to have the line completed and in opera
ton withen the next twelve months.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

The largest individual owner of Kan
sas land is man by the name OF }. I.
Pomeroy. the coal king of Atchison, he
owns 60 600 acres of the Sunflower state.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

Jay Gould is reported to be very sick
man, In spite of the amphatic denials.
Gould can afford to be sick, but can t
afford to have the stock market know it.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

The heavy rains that have fallen in
western Kansas this year have been very
hard on railroad grades and costs the
various lines large amount of money
to keep their road-bed in repair. 1t seems
to us that the sowing of some kind of
grass on the sides Of grades would be a
great saving to companies, as it would
certainly cost less to NOW it occasionally
then to be constantly repairing damages
caused by rains which would have but
little effect on sod.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

The acreage of grain, hay and alfalfa
being grown in Arkansas valley counties
this year is double that grown in any pre-
vious year in the history of the state.
This section of Colorado is certainly hav-
ing an agricultural boOm.-Pueblo Chief
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

A man in Los Angeles, CAL, has a
tomato vine twenty-five feet high; and
the bard who sang: Beneath the tall
tomato-tree I'd swing the glittering
hoe" was no SLOUGH, if he did have fits.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07
KANSAS PATENTS.

s. A. Haseltine & Bro, patent solic-
itors, Springfield, Missouri, send us the
following list of patents which were is
sued to citizens of Kansas during the last
week:
A. II. and E. G. bales, Washington.
machine for weaving thatching.
X. K. Burt, Haddam, paint compound.
j. B. johnson, Anthony, car coupling.
>. b. johnson, Anthony, leaver for
wagon brakes
). G. Kelly, Stockdale, wagon brake.
s. B. Dard, Waterville, rowing attach
ments for boats.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07
WHEAT YIELDS IN SOUTH
ERN KANSAS.

A Times special from Arkansas City,
Kansas, says that wheat threshing has
begun there, and that yield of thirty
1--WE bushels per acre is predicted through
southern Kansas from results thus far
shown
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

The only change in the style ot Fishing
tackle this year is the heavy willow pad
ing on the base of the Jug and the long
cOrn-cOb stopper.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

A poet writes: GO | know sweet songs
| cannot sing" He is in the same boat
with the National Opera Company.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

Eighty-two newspapers of Texas are
reported to favor prohibition, while but
twenty-one have taken the other side.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

Sixteen tons of icorice root, cut and
bailed is ready for shipment from the
ranch of Isaac Leal, Sacramento valley
California, who has made quite a success
of its culture.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07
Don't hurry.
Don't WOrrY.

This is condensed wisdom of ages, pc
culiarly applicable when the mercury is
coquetttng with the nineties. Cut it out,
paste it in the crown of your hat, follow
its injunction and you will find it val
liable as prevention of sun stroke and
promoter of longevity. Life is short at
the best but it is made perceptibly short
er by hurrying and worrying during the
dog days.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

A bad penny always returns, but it
is the good cent that goes faster then
you can get hold Of it.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

Governor Bodewell, of Maine, char
acterizes the attempt to sell imported
liquors in that state as a conspiracy to
evade the prohibition law by ''an.. I'M
justi6able Interpretation of the United
States revenue regulations and called
upon the state and county attorneys to
rigidly enforce the law. Governor
Bodewells view of the case will we
doubt not, be found to be the correct
one.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

The edelweiss the famous flower of the
Alps, has been found on Mount RAINIER
Washington territory.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

There does not seem to be great
deal of difference between the capital
punishment laws of Kansas and Illinois.
In Kansas a murderer is sentenced to
be hanged and goes to the Peniten-
tiary for life. In Illinois he receives
the same sentence and spends the re-
mainder of his days in the county Jail
with his cause hung up in court. In
either case the law is a fraud.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07
ADVERTISING RATES.

~ The DODGE CITY TINES has large ard
GROWING Circulation in Ford and adjoining coun-
tS;es' and is valuable advertising medium. Ia
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

The great end of life is not to earn
food and clothing, though this is to most
one of the most pressing necessities. If
this were all Of life it would not be
worth living. And so the true end of
education is not simply to enable the
man or woman to earn food and cloth
ing. 1t is to develope the thinking
faculties, and so rise the individual to
higher Possibilities of enjoyment and of
influence. These possibilities are quite
Independent of the daily employment.
The man or woman who has learned to
think, who has acquired the capacity to
enjoy good book, to pursue useful
investigation, to hold intercourse with
people of intelligence and thoughtful
ness, to reason soundly and clearly on
solid, moral, and religious problems,
which are constantly presenting them
selves for solution, has reached high
er and happier level of humanity than
the less fortunate neighber And there
is is no necessity for such to change
their spheres of life. With the advan
tage of modern laborsaving appliances
and the exemption they bring from the
necessity for exhausting, unceasing toll,
there is no reason why the farmer and
the mechanic should not be the peers in
general intelligence of the lawyer, the
doctor, or minister. Such an ambition
is worthy of being cherished by every
youth in this land of school.
In every community are found men
who seem to enjoy notoriety, like to
make motions at public meetings, serve
on committees, get there names in the
papers, and to be prominent generally.
It is habit with many persons to rid
icule such people, to sit down on them
and accuse them of unworthy motives.
They are called busy bodies, seekers
after noteriety and nuisances. This
IS all wrong. The more of such busy
bodies found in community, the more
progress it makes. The western town
which are injoying such booms are run
by such men. While the steady old
standby is the -four in the bread these
SO called busy-bodies are yeast which
causes the loaf to rise and expand, and
without which it would remain solid,
perhaps, but stale, disagreeable
unwholesome and fiat. What matter
if they do push themselves forward, if
they give their services to the commu-
nifty at cheap rate; the community has
cause to congratulate itself on it's bar
gain. We believe in encouraging such
men and the person who ridicules them
and attempts to down them is himself
public enemy. The rustler is what
we want, and we went him bad, En-
courage, direct his energies, but keep
him going. He will give the town life
and prosperity.-(Selected
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

DRUNKENNESS, OR the LIQUOR HABIT Posi-
lively CURED BY ADMINISTERING
DIR. HAINES' GOLDEN SPECIFIC
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07

DODGE CITY, July LIST, 1887.
The Wichita Construction and Supply Company,
by j. W. Hartzell its duly authorized agent hereby
accepts of the above ordinance.
WICHITA CONSTRUCTION & SUPPLY Co.
By j. W. HARTZELL, Agent.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-07
THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL

1s the Great Teachers Training
School of Kansas
The only one EXCLUSIVELY devoted to the train.
ing of Teachers. Total enrolment last year. 7t6
% Kansas Counties and Is States represented.
CI2IcxA 4 LIFE CERTIFICATE &C TIAcE. Railroad
fare in excess of So 90 refunded to all Kansas stu
dents. The building, including the new wing, con-
tains 30 rooms all devoted TO the purposes of the
school. Ample facilities in the way of Apparatus
Libraries, etc. Write for Catalogue and Circulars
to the President. A. 2. TAYLOR. 1nresis. 4.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-28
How to Live to be a Hundred.

Subsist on light but nutritious diet,
with milk as the standard food, but var
led according to season.
Take food in moderate quantity, four
times in the day, including light meal
before going to bed.
Clothe warmly, but lightly, so that the
body may in all seasons, maintain an
equal temperature.
Keep the body in fair exercise and the
mind activs and cheerful.
Maintain an interest in what is going
on in the world, and take part In reason
able labor and p 'easures, as though old
age were not present.
Take plenty of sleep doing sleeping
hours, speed nine hours in at least, and
take care doing cold weather that the
temperature of the bed room is maintain
ed at sky degrees Fahrenheit
Avoid passion, excitement, luxury.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-28
Let the Panther How'll

No Democrat has need to fret
At Democratic ways,
For we may all be happy yet,
And in the clover Craze.
While Mugwumps foolishly may
dream,
And other men may scowl,
Drive on the Democratic team,
And let the panther how'll
The man who says what isn't true
Blisters his tongue in vain,
And none should fear the selfish
crew
Who utter lies for gain.
Truth travels on while falsehoods
sleep,
Through weather fair and foul:
So let the stricken deer go weep,
And let the panther how'll
He who is faithful to his friends,
Who keeps his conscience clear.
Who seeks no wrong of selfish ends,
Has surely naught TO fear.
Though many sleek Republicans
In office spy and prowl,
On with the democratic dance,
And let the panther howl?
If all things are but fairly done,
And victory made complete.
The man who bravely fought and
won
Need never know defeat.
To nobly play noble part,
With cause for none to growl,
Drive on the Democratic cart
And let the panther howl!
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-28

A MONTANA girl came East and atted-
ed fashionable boarding school for a
year On her return she flew into her
fathers arms, gasping out:
80, papa How is mamma and"
The old Montanian retreated until he
backed up against the depot; then he
shook one horny finger warningly toward
the returned Sadie, and said
Don't you 90 for to calling me poppy
and your mann 'mommy Sary J ne. We
won't hev it. Dad and mann was
good enuff fer we when ye left home, an
It's good enuff now that 1--WE come
home Bar that in mind, Sary Jane. an
don't poppy me again or III take a
brush to ye."
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-28
p II A Z M A @ "

gossip or other women-not only not to
talk, but not to shrug the shoulders when
other women's names are mentioned,
which is so much more cruel than speech.
Circulars We're freely given out at the
close of the meeting printed in purple,
the color of all the printing of the leaflets
and hymns Of the society, and there was q
large sale OF tho cross and ribbon, each
cross bearing the letters 81 III. NJ"
standing for the watchword of the sister
hood. ''In his nGmc ~ New York World.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-28
For Sale.

SAIL and ROW BOAT, in good order
IN nearly new, with complete outfit, embrac-
ing oars, oarlocks. anchor, &C., cheap. Apply
at this office. 5-2ou
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-07-28
T,oST.

A Ladies' GOLD ENAMEL ED WATCH
"A scroll edges-initials on outside case y
B, H." A liberal reward when returned 10
DIR. ii. II. WALTON, No. Francis Street,